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River Thames Frost Fairs
- matthewsinclair 6y agoIf you're interested in this time, Julia Fullerton-Batten did some amazing fine-art photography around the theme of "Old Father Thames" and the 1814 Frost Fair [1]. [1] https://www.juliafullerton-batten.com/projectmenu.php?catNo=1&gallNo=87 https://www.juliafullerton-batten.com/projectmenu.php?catNo=...
- chewxy 6y agoThe Doctor visited one such frost fair with his companion Bill.
- ThePhysicist 6y agoThin Ice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Ice_(Doctor_Who_episode) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Ice_(Doctor_Who_episode)
- dghf 6y agoAnd another one with River Song and Stevie Wonder ("A Good Man Goes to War"). ETA: turns out it was the same one both times, the last Thames frost fair ever, in 1814.
- danharaj 6y agoOh neat! One of these takes place in Virginia Woolf's book Orlando and I wasn't sure which parts were historical and which were fanciful.
- yawaramin 6y agoI saw the movie and was thinking of it when I saw this post!
- JacobAldridge 6y agoWhile I was aware these were largely a relic of the Little Ice Age, I hadn’t realised how rare they were even then. Nor had I appreciated the confluence of factors that created them, including the narrow arches of the previous London Bridge.
- omnibrain 6y agoThere is something similar in modern times in Hamburg called "Alstereisvergnügen". Alster is the river, Eis is ice, and Vergnügen can be translated as Fair.
- arethuza 6y agoIt has been reported that Scotland's mountains had glaciers up to about 1700: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-25824673 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-258... Edit: I spend a lot of time the Scottish mountains and I'm fascinated by glaciation so deeply disappointed that I missed them by such a relatively short period of time.
- dpeck 6y agoIt is interesting to me how far apart in time some of these were. It must have been quite an experience for it to stay in the minds of revelers for so many years between them. Or perhaps it it one of those things where it dropped out of though for sometimes decades at a time, but the Thames was such a large presence in their lives that when it froze over stories from parents/grandparents came flooding back and they wanted to recreate and have their memory of standing in the middle of it?